GX & Decarbonization Research

Yinka Ayodeji Olayinka, Blessing Afolayan, Ovie Emmanuel Eruteya +1

This review evaluates geologic CO2 storage potential across South Africa's major sedimentary basins. It finds a theoretical storage capacity of ~150 gigatons, almost entirely offshore, but identifies infrastructure, finance, regulatory, sta…

Wang Lei, Mao Dongsen

A dataset supporting a study that prepared Cu-Zn-Zr-M (M=B, Al, Ga, In) catalysts via solvent-directed citric acid complexation. Using a 'zero-electronic-perturbation' model, it decouples structural, acid-base, and Cu electronic effects in …

S. Sekharamantri, P. Sarker, M. Alsaleh +1

This study designs and optimizes an integrated CO2 transport network moving ~1.85 Mtpa from six sour gas facilities in North Kuwait to a common EOR/storage site. Three concepts—dense-phase, gas-phase, and a hybrid gas-dense phase with centr…

Z. Tariq, Muhammad Ali, H. Hoteit

This study uses an integrated compositional simulation framework—slim-tube, 2D ensemble screening, and 3D field-scale validation—to assess how impure CO2 streams (N2, CH4, H2S) affect CO2-EOR recovery and storage efficiency. Inert impuritie…

N. Molnar, Шариф Ашраф, M. Z. Ali

This paper examines design methods to prevent ductile fracture propagation in dense phase CO2 pipelines. Thermodynamic modeling shows impurities shift the phase envelope and strongly drive Charpy V-notch toughness requirements. Commissionin…

A. Zinatullina, A. Mazeli, Y. Zainudain +8

Proposes an integrated FSM-PSM-dynamic-geomechanical workflow to mature saline aquifer CO2 storage leads, moving beyond depleted reservoirs. It jointly assesses injectivity, pressure build-up and management, geomechanical limits, containmen…

Riccardo Raspone, Giacomo Antonicelli, Fabrizio Pirri +1

This mini-review surveys H2/CO2-driven gas fermentation by acetogenic Clostridium species as a carbon capture and utilization route for CO2-rich industrial emissions. It compiles best lab-scale productivities, discusses key metabolic constr…

Bei-Chen Zhao, Katerina Nik, Jian-Fei Bi

DHN-4DFNO couples a 4D Fourier neural operator with a denoising Hamiltonian network to surrogate compositional CO2-EOR simulation for CCUS digital twins. Across 1,500 simulations, it predicts pressure, oil saturation, and CO2 fraction with …

J. Howard, R. Trevisan, E. Allahverdiyev +1

This paper reviews how geothermal and CCUS wells push casing design beyond conventional elastic, deterministic frameworks—superhot geothermal wells may require intentional post-yield design, while CCUS wells introduce long-term integrity, t…

Chuan-Ruo Yang, Lin Huang, Fan Nie +5

This review systematically surveys solid-waste-derived porous adsorbents for greenhouse gas capture (CCUS), covering porous carbons from plastics/biomass, cross-linked porous polymers, coal-gangue-derived silica-aluminous materials, and mul…

Saqib Sajjad, M. A. Alahmed, Mohamed Rasul Al Hashmi

This paper analyzes the Habshan-5 CO2 Recovery and Injection (CRI) project as an execution-stage case of integrated carbon capture, conditioning and utilization within a gas-processing facility. It examines brownfield integration, reuse of …

K. Kumar, L. Gillions, P. Bumb +2

Operational evaluation of a 20 TPD CCU facility at NTPC Vindhyachal coal power station in India, integrating post-combustion CO2 capture with catalytic methanol synthesis. The semi-modular retrofit achieved 86.9% capture efficiency and 99.9…

Anushree Appandairajan, Zoya Anas, Sumia Tageldein +1

A cradle-to-gate LCA of UAE cement production using GREET R&D, focusing on gas-fired kilns. The natural gas OPC baseline is 875.97 kg CO2eq/t. Electricity decarbonization cuts only 2-6%, while carbon capture delivers >30% reductions; a comb…

Peng Dong, Ren-Wei Liu, Xin Lu +3

This study proposes a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method to dynamically optimize CO2 flooding and storage schemes, maximizing NPV while accounting for a carbon tax. A two-level deep-learning surrogate cuts 30-year scheme evaluation fr…

Dong Li, Linjie Gong, Jiadi Gao +2

A materials study synthesizing porous carbons from dried silkworm pupae biomass, with tailored ultramicropores and oxygen functional groups for CO2 capture. It illustrates converting biomass waste into solid sorbents for CCUS, where pore st…

Fiaz Hussaın, Farooq Ahmad, Muhammad Tahir Amin +3

A review linking CO2 capture materials with reactive utilization toward carbon circularity, spanning integrated materials design and scale-up pathways. It appears to connect capture technology to conversion/use routes and implementation cha…

Loukas Kollias, Xiaodong Liang, Philip Loldrup Fosbøl +2

This work models CO2 chemical absorption using MEA with an extended UNIQUAC thermodynamic framework. It validates the model and analyzes the underlying physical phenomena governing absorption behavior, supporting more accurate design of car…

Yang Wang, Dan Li, Jiaye Li +1

This work develops a carbon capture model for the fuel reactor of a chemical looping combustion (CLC) system and applies it to a 5 MWth pilot unit. CLC enables low-energy CO2 separation, and validating the model at pilot scale informs scale…

Teena Joseph

This review frames CO2 separation from flue gas and air as an adsorption problem and explains the three binding mechanisms used by metal-organic frameworks—physisorption in tailored micropores, coordination at open metal sites, and chemisor…

Christina Samara, Georgia Papapanagiotou, Christos Chatzidoukas

This work reconsiders how inorganic carbon is supplied in microalgae cultivation to improve biomass productivity and carbon capture efficiency. It focuses on carbon-feed design as a lever on cultivation performance. Without an abstract, spe…